Is there a method to use drones to mine … recall them when rats are present … used combat drones to kill rats … when no more rats recall combat drones and relaunch mining drones

There was a way with the old implementation from what I read (Sanderling), don’t know if anyone made it to elm. Getting the drones to start mining can be simple, by pressing F with the asteroid locked and selected (pressing keys described here). The old sanderling post that identifies NPCs (can be helpful to decide which drones to launch and when) can be found here. Still, as I said, the bot is built on elm now.